Reincarnated As The Hero Ring

Vicar walks away from the village. He seems to be thinking about something as he wasn't paying attention to the path ahead. He nearly hit a large tree to his own face. Luckily I was there to snapped him out of what currently in his mind. 

"What's on your mind? Ever since we left the village, I notice that you have been thinking of something. Care to share it with me?" I said to Vicar. 

"Well, I have just been thinking about what the girl says before we left. Why is it be dangerous for us to stay there..." Vicar says, "There nothing there that seems dangerous to me. It seems pretty peaceful."

"Maybe they just don't like a stranger or they're hiding some secret and if you did discover about it, your life would be in danger," I replied back to Vicar. 

I look at Vicar as I somehow figure out what he was trying to do next. "Are you really wanted to go back there, Vicar?" 

Vicar looks at me, surprised as he said, "How did you know that I was going back to the village..." Vicar said as he raised his eyebrows, "Are you reading my mind?" 

"Of course not, I didn't even have that ability. It's pretty easy to guess exactly. You have been glancing back at the village many times and how could I not notice that at all." I said to Vicar. 

"So then are you going to forbid me to go back there?" Vicar ask me that question. 

I know that it would be stupid to go back to that place when all of the people there didn't even like Vicar presence. I also have a bad feeling about that village as it seems to hide something. At Vicar current state, I doubt that he could defend himself. 

Vicar completely destroyed his leather armour. He was just wearing a thin cloth right now. I really like that Vicar wouldn't go there but I know he would not listen to me so there's no point telling him to do so. It's pretty pointless for me. 

I simply said to Vicar, "I would stop you if I have a body but since I don't have a body, I'm stuck with you so I will have no choice to follow you." 

"I think this is the first time you ring that you didn't try to stop me," Vicar says that. "If there is no objection, then I will head back to the village."

With that, Vicar slowly headed back to the village. This time he was trying to sneak into the village. He knows what will happen if the villager saw him in the village. All of the villagers will immediately head to their home and leave Vicar alone. 

Vicar uses one of his invisibility skill to make himself even harder to be detected. Vicar told me that he just wanted to hear the villager conversation to have some intel about this strange place that we both got into. 

We successfully infiltrate the village as no one notice Vicar at all. Vicar then walks closer to a group of guys that seems to be having a conversation right now. We both hope that their conversation would be beneficial to us as we're trying to find out the secret of this village. 

"Why would the Urulk stop us from killing that human!" One of the men said as he was looking pretty angrier about it. 

"Are you stupid!? You know that Urulk was the right-hand man of the Inquisitor right?... Urulk order was from the Inquisitor." Said the only woman in the group. 

"I doubt that as Urulk doesn't seem to be receiving any order at all from the Inquisitor, Urulk doesn't seem to enter his house when the human arrived. So there's no way Urulk received the order..."

"I know that but it's been a hundred years since we feast upon human flesh and Urulk wanted to stop us from doing so! That's unacceptable..." The other man replied. 

The woman looks at both man as she said, "You both are stupid! Urulk would never lie to us. Urulk was just telling the Inquisitor order."

"You're the one that stupid... you been too much trust on Urulk." The man said that as he didn't really like to be called stupid. 

The other man backs him up as he also said the same thing. The woman then leaves both of the men as she curses both of them, hoping that Urulk or someone else will kill both of them.

From that conversation, there's indeed some information that we get. I thoughts it would be awful for us to eavesdropping someone conversation but somehow, I felt glad we do this thing. As we both know that this village does have a connection with the Inquisitor. 

But if what we hear was true, that also means that the Inquisitor kept eyes on Vicar. The Inquisitor might have realized that we had entered this village and also knows what we're doing right now. I quickly tell Vicar to leave this area as the Inquisitor might notify Urulk of our presence already in this village. 

Vicar agrees with me as he tried to sneak his way out of this village. He also realizes the danger if he stays any longer in this village. But somehow, Vicar had been discovered by someone before he could make it out. 

It was a man from before. He touches Vicar shoulder, meaning he has already seen trough Vicar invisibility. There's no point in hiding anymore if we already been discovered. Vicar uncloaks the invisibility as he slowly sheathed his sword. 

The man grinned at Vicar as he said, "You think I had not noticed your presence! No need to worry as I would not tell anybody you here if only you are willing to be eaten by me of course..." 

What were these people actually? They're looked human but why do they eat other humans. Does human in this village were cannibals? But if they eat human, why don't they eat each other as well. 

"Eat me? There's no way that I let you do that. I rather make noise and let all of the people know I am here." Vicar said that. 

"HAHAHA! You're funny and with that, I bet your meat feels rather delicious also." The man said as he then lunged towards Vicar after that. 

The man's speed wasn't that fast as Vicar easily dodge it and knock the man to the ground. Vicar couldn't kill the man knowing that he was gonna kill a human. It was the only thing that kind of makes Vicar soft as he wouldn't kill a human despite it being an enemy. 

This had happened before with Eli. Vicar couldn't just kill her despite knowing that Eli was an undead, a monster that should be slaughter. If all monster had a human appearance, I really think that Vicar would already be dead by now. 

Vicar pointed his sword towards the man and said, "Bring me to Urulk or your head will be chop... I give you one minute to make your decision." Vicar started the count. 

"Okay, I will bring you to..." Before the man could finish, his head was already being chopped by someone. 

Vicar quickly looks around to see who does that but we couldn't find anyone at all. It seems like they don't want us to meet Urulk and wanted Urulk identity to be hidden. 

"So there's definitely someone following us and watching every of our movement, don't you think so Vicar?" I said that to Vicar. 

"It seems like it and the one that does that is pretty good at hiding," Vicar said as he still looking at the surroundings. 

"There's no point in searching anymore. We should head out to know why we still had the chance to do so," I say to Vicar. " Unless you planning to search for Urulk..."

"I would not do that. It's pretty hard to finding someone that we don't even know. I think I am going to listen to your advice and leave this place for now." Vicar said that as he prepares to leave but we notice there's something weird. 

It was the man dead corpse. It has turned into a dark liquid. We don't know what happen to it but it shouldn't be turning liquid at all. Vicar tried to touch it but I stop him as it might have some effect. 

"You there! Hey!" It was his friend from earlier as he was coming our way. 

Vicar really wanted to investigate the dark liquid but he knows that it would be troublesome if his friend found him dead. 

With that, Vicar hurried and left the village. This time around, we successfully got out of the village as Vicar found a spot for him to rest and talk about what had happened. 

After finding a pretty secluded spot, Vicar sits down as we begin our conversation on this issue.